The Impact of Privacy on the Forms of Elevations in Traditional Vernacular Houses in Erbil City

Abstract

Privacy is one of the socio-cultural factors that affect on the formation of vernacular houses forms as a space organization and forms of elevations. Dealing with privacy varies from one culture to another, and this explains the diversity of houses forms in detached geographic regions. Privacy affects on the vernacular forms through a set of sub-factors. The most effective sub-factor on the elevations of traditional houses forms in Erbil city is the privacy of view between public and private spaces. In the selected samples this relationship is a direct one. The sub-factor of view privacy affects on the elevation form through form of the element and the position of the element regarding the whole elevation. Privacy is an effective factor that affects on the formal language of elevations in the traditional vernacular houses within the culture of Erbil city.

Language, Kingship, and Nation: The Ambiguous Politics of Ehmedê Xanî's Mem û Zîn

“…1 Unfortunately, this position has hardly been matched by sustained critical attention. In Arabic, Turkish, and Kurdish, numerous works have been published, but few of these have much analytical rigor; the most significant of these being Resûl (2007Resûl ( [1979), Khaznadar (2010); and the şîrove, or line-by-line commentaries, by Cîhanî (2007), Dost (2010), and Yıldırım (2013). 2 In Western languages, studies of Xanî's epic are still few and far between; earlier discussions (Shakely, 1992;Hassanpour, 1992: 52-7, 83-90 andvan Bruinessen, 2004) largely focus on the question of the presence or absence of Kurdish nationalism in the work, but this preoccupation with nationalism is rather anachronistic.…”